Dazzle Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Glory be to God for dappled things- For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

“Spurn everything that is added by way of decoration and display by unneccesary labour. Relect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness…

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Many of us squander precious natural resources -time, creative energy, emotion- comparing our talents to those of others. Today ask Spirit to call forth…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

A composition which dazzles at first sight by gaudy epithets, or brilliant turns or expression, or glittering trains of imagery, may fade gradually from…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air.

— Thomas Starr King

“Human beings have a remarkable talent for persuading themselves of the authenticity and nobility of aspects of themselves which are in fact expedient, spurious,…

— Salman Rushdie

If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the…

— Pindar

Among the flowers no perfume is like mine; That which is best in me comes from within. So those in this world who would…

— Charles Godfrey Leland

Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, Live regist'red upon our brazen tombs And then grace us in the disgrace of death;…

— William Shakespeare

The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We inherit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted. Each of us contains within us this inheritance of soul. We are links…

— Edward Sellner

There is something so mean and unmanly in the arts of dissimulation and falsehood that I am surprised they can be used by anyone…

— Robert Burns